On August 5, 1941, a German SS unit from Telechany arrived in Święta Wola. They arrested the local Jewish men and locked them in one of the buildings, which was probably the local People's House [club]. On the following night, August 5-6, the Jewish women and children were also brought to the People's House. The Germans then demanded a ransom in gold and money. When the ransom had been paid, the Jewish men were divided into groups of twenty and taken to a pit that had previously been used for gasoline storage. The pit lay 400 meters northwest of the Święta Wola railway station, at the starting point of the narrow-gauge railway line leading to Borowicze, near the Zawirye ravine. There, the men in each group were forced to arrange themselves in rows, facing each other, whereupon they were shot with submachine guns and rifles. After the shooting of each group, the bodies would be covered with a thin layer of soil by local non-Jews, who had been ordered to come to the shooting site with their shovels; the next group would then be brought to the pit to be shot. Those too old or weak to walk were beaten by the Germans and forced to move toward the pit. According to some testimonies, on the morning of August 6, 1941, the women and children were taken to the barracks in the vicinity of the shooting site. The locals were then ordered to dig three additional pits at a spot 200-250 meters northwest of the first pit, some 50 meters from the barracks. As soon as the pits were ready, the women and children were taken there in groups of forty. The women were forced to strip to their underwear. After the shooting, many of the victims were merely wounded, but they were all thrown into the pit and buried by the locals; the next group was then brought forward. According to the eyewitnesses, some of the locals, unable to bear the sight of the execution, tried to run away, but they were beaten by the Germans and forced to stay. The victims' clothes and shoes were taken from the shooting site back to Święta Wola. A total of sixty Jewish men and 265-300 Jewish women and children were shot in this murder operation.

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